I'm with panda on this. Valve has no reason to support the PS3. They make money from Steam. A lot of money and they don't have to pay publishing fees or ridiculous royalties on DLC and their games. Linux is of higher interest to Valve because it allows them to keep their platform while increasing the size of their community.

@Theonik: They DO have a reason to develop for the PS3. That is that a lot of people outside of the Valve apologists want them to. Gabe said it himself that they get a lot of requests for them to develop PS3 games. Of course, there IS that cost that McGraw talked about, but when did they make that claim, and was that true to begin with? In my opinion, they have had different excuses for every time the question of why not has come up, so them saying that gives me questions as anyone SHOULD have because they keep changing their reasoning (first it's a "waste of time", then not enough of the right staff, then dev costs, then XBL fans are better than PSN fans, then...what else). See where I'm going here. It's hard for me to believe that they are worried about dev costs when so many other excuses have came across the board without any way to see that the other reasons they said also mattered when they gave the new excuse. It was like the previous reason was never given or existed when the new issue came about.

I think all their excuses can be squashed with a few minutes of research, and I think McGraw is taking what Valve said about dev costs (which have been down, anyway, with the way more devs, small and big alike, seem willing to work with the PS3 as the lead console) at face value when he shouldn't. Linux and Mac are NOT a "copy and paste" job, and yet, they are doing it anyway. So how is it that any more difficult to do anything for the PS3? By the way, Valve has EA's support, too, so it's not like that is any big of an issue, or is that a viable excuse even if Valve didn't have EA support because most dev studios are of that size. We're not talking about PUBLISHERS, here. Only developers. There's a BIG difference.

My thought is that Valve is being stubborn. They made that statement back in 2007, and they have very, VERY rarely had to retract any statement like that like they have made. They know they put their foot in their mouth when they said that, and yet, they want to hold onto that sentiment by avoiding having to develop for the PS3 because they don't want to make that huge retraction. Gabe DID say he was sorry to the PS3 owners for the Orange Box, but that was after the fact, and it doesn't seem like it was sincere, and if he was completely sorry, then he would be looking into development for the PS3. Of course, an announcement for Portal 2 on the PS3 would prove me wrong, and to be honest, this is something I would LOVE to be proven wrong about (and I believe that will happen at E3, or else, like I said, there has to be hard questions asked).

I am glad, though, that many of the dissension to my opinion have been more or less mature. We don't have anyone yet giving me personal attacks or any shit like that yet. At least there are some points given and well thought out instead of people who are just trying to hide console or PC fandom as Valve fandom by going "Valve don't make PS3 games cuz PS3 suxxxors", though I think the reasons are wrong.